I had breakfast everyday for a week over Thanksgiving 2016 and spent several evenings
in the pub. Warm and welcoming with a toasty wood stove in the lobby. New owners,
Wayne and iona went out of their way to look after me.
The ornate Grandfather Clock in the lobby caught my eye and set me on a Google search.
The song was recorded by Burl Ives, Johnny Cash and others.
"My grandfather's clock was too big for the shelf
So it stood 90 years on the floor.
But it stopped, short, never to go again,
When the old man died.
90 years without slumbering,
tick tock tick tock
His life seconds numbering,
tick tock tick tock.
It stopped short, never to go again,
When the old man died."
Patrick M. Gimli, Manitoba. read more